Geodesics and geodesic deviation in a two-dimensional black hole
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We introduce an exactly solvable example of timelike geodesic motion and geodesic deviation in the background geometry of a well-known two-dimensional black hole spacetime. The effective potential for geodesic motion turns out to be either a harmonic oscillator or an inverted harmonic oscillator or a linear function of the spatial variable, corresponding to the three different domains of a constant of the motion. The geodesic deviation equation also is exactly solvable. The corresponding deviation vector is obtained and the nature of the deviation is briefly discussed by highlighting a specific case.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0302065,
title = {Geodesics and geodesic deviation in a two-dimensional black hole},
author = {Ratna Koley and Supratik Pal and Sayan Kar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0302065},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
18 pages, 4 figures, To be published in American Journal of Physics